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Imagination

Examples of Season-Tone in Literature (part two)

In the previous article, I wrote about the use of season-words in haiku and the possibility of conveying season through tone rather than the use of weighted words. The subject of tone relates to all writing, not exclusively haiku, so I thought I would provide some useful examples of the use of tone in works [...]

Eva Zeisel on innovation for its own sake

from Creativity pg 72 in my version: This idea to create something different is not my aim, and shouldn’t be anybody’s aim. Because, first of all, if you are a designer or a playful person in any of these crafts, you have to be able to function a long life, and you can’t always try [...]

Brilliant Opinion of Creative Flourishing – Csikszentmihalyi’s ‘Creativity’

Here is an excerpt from Creativity: Flow and the Psychology of Discovery and Invention: … it must be recognized that without previous models and the support of the city, Brunelleschi and Ghiberti could not have done what they did. And that with the favorable conjunction of field and domain, if these two artists had not [...]

Learning from the environment

I don’t know a single creative writer who doesn’t love to travel. Every creative writer I know benefits from a change of scenery. It’s the creative thing to do. A writer really has two important environments of which to be mindful: the wild nature of the written page their external environment Both of these deserve [...]

Richard Diebenkorn’s Artist Statement

This is one of the most genius statements ever made about modern painting. It applies to writing as well. Your questions concern groups of artists and their changing attitudes, which I take for granted and about which I’m not very interested. What interests me is that a few strong painters are at work, some of [...]

The Kind of Impatience Which Means to Celebrate the Moment

I stopped for a moment and gave some thought to a potential argument that a poet’s life is measured by a certain number of books. Six books. Three books. Twelve books of poetry and one nonfiction book. Not an argument of quality or quantity, but an argument that looks to the book as the thing [...]

Solastalgia and the Ecological Unconscious

Beautifully-written article in the NY Times on the Ecological Unconscious. http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/31/magazine/31ecopsych-t.html

Coming to a Feeling of Oneness in Artistic Creation

The world loves to produce. We all love to build things. On Process Creation happens in those instants when you have everything at stake and you risk it all. After creation, something else begins. Something to be regarded, experienced–an object. Something external with its own life and consequences. Maybe there are three steps to creative [...]

Di Mezzo Il Mare – Post A Snapshot of Your Journal Page

If you’re a writer, you probably carry a journal. Open this journal to an interesting page. Doodles, poetry, story fragments, Jenny’s phone number. Take a snapshot of it or scan in an image of that page. Email it to: submissions AT dimezzoilmare.com This is our new online lit journal experiment.

Ideas You Can Get While Showering

There are three places where I always get ideas. Good place #1: The Shower. Always. It’s like a portable brilliant box, a place you can go into and by the time you come out you’ve got a head full of fresh ideas and a clean body. Actually, I should invent some sort of device that [...]

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